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- When you let intution have its way with you, you open up new levels of the world. Such opening-up is the most practical of all…
- The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until…
- Adoration is caring for God above all else.
- As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so…
- As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him', may be an…
- All artist are of necessity in some measure contemplatives.
- Never let yourself think that because God has given you many things to do for Himpressing routine jobs, a life full up with duties and…
- Much is now being said about evangelism; but before we get effective evangelism, we have to get effective evangelists. Evangelism is useless unless it is…
- Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. Its surroundings…
- God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
- All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes…
- But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of…
- The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive…
- After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer…
- In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured…
- On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle